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August 2010
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EDN Tip #4: Getting help with the head scratchers
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– Do you have a really tough coding problem to solve, and you’ve gone beyond head scratching into downright pulling your hair out? Assistance is already available for your algorithmic agony! For years, members of our community had requested a general purpose algorithms discussion forum for just ...
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RAD Studio Tip #1: Quickly configuring MySQL to use with dbExpress and Data Explorer
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– When developing and debugging applications for EDN, I use several different Windows VMs for various reasons. Periodically, I want to use the RAD Studio Data Explorer to look at some values in a MySQL database. If libmysql.dll (the MySQL driver dll) is missing from the machine or not in the right ...
June 2010
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EDN Tip #3: Keeping your QualityCentral windows client current
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– A "by the way" comment on our Delphi non-technical discussion forum by TeamB member Rudy Vethuis inspired this next tip on keeping your QualityCentral (QC) windows client current. QualityCentral is where you can submit bug reports and feature requests for Embarcadero products, to be acted upon by ...
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EDN Tip #2: Finding video and audio files on EDN
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– A question from Alf Christophersen in the EDN website discussion forum regarding some of our older video files suggested the topic for this EDN tip. With the switch from Borland, to CodeGear, to Embarcadero domains, and the retirement of bdn.borland.com, some of the urls you’ll still run ...
May 2010
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EDN Tip #1: Posting source code snippets on our discussion forums
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– EDN supports both NNTP/NNTPS and HTTP/HTTPS for our discussion forums. Some special html processing is performed by our forum software when posting code snippets, which can mess up indenting of code snippets. Robert Triest asked about preserving code formatting for his posts on our discussion ...
March 2010
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Specifying JDBC connection properties for Blackfish SQL
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– Recently, I needed to set the port for JDBC connection property for one of the Blackfish SQL databases we use on the Embarcadero Developer Network. After looking at the documentation online, I couldn’t find a way to set it in the connection string. (I’m not an expert on JDBC, but the ...
September 2009
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How to repair a corrupted Blackfish SQL database
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– We use Blackfish SQL as the database for our discussion forums. Although the java version (formerly known as JDataStore) supports mirroring and fail-over, the .NET version has never been certified for that functionality. Sometimes when we have hardware failures in our data center, our database ends ...
May 2009
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New "home page" header links on EDN
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– We've introduced a new logo for EDN as part of our standard header. With that minor redesign, I had a "duh!" moment and realized we could also create a "home page" link for the specific EDN application you're currently using, such as Blogs, Chat, Discussion Forums, CodeCentral, Member Services, ...
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Meet me at Delphi Live!
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– As I mentioned in this blog post, I'll be attending Delphi Live this week. If you want to catch up with me, probably the best place to find me is in Embarcadero area of the exhibit hall on Thursday from approximately 1:15pm-2:30pm and 6:45-7:30pm (at the "Beer Bash" before the ...
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Rehashing CodeCentral hash values
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– Shortly after my blog post about finally displaying MD5 hash values for CodeCentral downloads, Jorge Almeida asked about SHA1 hash values instead because of the known collision problems with MD5. So, we now are displaying not only MD5 hash values but also SHA1 hash values for each CodeCentral ...
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See you at Delphi Live!
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– I'll be attending Delphi Live! in San Jose, California May 13 – 16, 2009. Thomas Pfister is staying nearby in Capitola, California and has graciously offered to chauffeur me to and from the conference in the handy-dandy convertible he'll have while visiting. Since I'm completely buried in EDN work ...
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MD5 hash on CodeCentral downloads
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– All internal stored downloads in CodeCentral now have an MD5 hash value, so you can use that value to validate your download. In the Details section of the download, you’ll see something like this: Updated on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:26:55 GMTOriginally uploaded on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:51:10 GMTMD5 ...
April 2009
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What’s in a named list?
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– We're working on "named lists" for QualityCentral. This will allow any logged-in user to create a list of QualityCentral (QC) reports, name the list, and share it with varying visibility rules, such as private, public, invitation only, etc. I want to get your feedback on some of the options ...
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Powerful but easy paging with ASP.NET MVC
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– Since I started following the public beta in mid-2008, I've been eagerly awaiting the release of ASP.NET MVC. Now that ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is released, I've been diving into it more, and fiddling with some DataSnap tooling to quickly generate the strongly typed models MVC works likes best. The EDN ...
January 2009
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The Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors
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– I was just having a Skype chat with Jonathan Benedicto, one of the developers on the Developer Network team, and he pointed out a very valuable and relevant link to me regarding the "Top 25 most dangerous programming errors" all software developers should address in their code. This isn't a funny ...
